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The mysteryes of nature and art : conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes, the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful (1634)

Bate, John · Imprinted at London : For Ralph Mab and are to be sold by Iohn Iackson and Francis Church at the Kings armes in Cheapeside · leaf 94

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1 (///• o/Fire-^orhV. How to make flying Dragons^ 79 THc flying Dragon isfomcwhat troublcfomclp. com-pofc i it muft be made cythcr of dry and light wood,or crooked-hnc plates, or of thin whalebones coveredwith Mufcovie glaffe, and painted over. In the bodythereof,-there muft bee a voydc cane to… … weight of the Dragon (hall require ; the body muft beefilled with divers petrars, that may confumeit, and afpatUing receipt muft be fo difpofed upon it, thatbein^fired, it may burne both at che moutb and at the tayie ehcreofs 8o Thefecond Booh thereof 5 then hang the wings on in fuch wife, that…

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